Andrew Murchison Amann

Andrew Amann was born in Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago, in 1936. He attended both private and government schools attaining, a Senior Cambridge School Certificate Grade 1, in 1952. After working briefly as a civil servant in the Sangre Grande Warden’s Office, he joined the teaching profession, becoming an assistant teacher (under training) at Malabar RC school in Arima.

Following in the footsteps of his ‘Windrush’ cousins, he emigrated to England in 1957 and studied at Westminster College while working in restaurants to pay his way. He was called up for National Service but volunteered to join the RAF. While stationed at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, he courted a West Country lass in the romantic city of Bath, married her and had six children. After serving as an electronic technician, air radar, for ten years, he qualified as a teacher after a two-year course at Bishop Grosseteste College. He was later to gain a MA (Ed.) degree from the University of Hull.

Having taught at both secondary and middle schools for a number of years, he left to take up an appointment in the Youth and Community Service in Berkshire. He took early retirement from the post of Youth and Community Education Officer and returned to Trinidad with his wife in 1992. In spite of enjoying the warmth and hospitality of the land of his birth, with the passing of family and friends of his age group, he and his dear wife have now returned to live in England, near to a daughter, son, and grandchildren. He can be contacted by e-mail at [email protected], or on Facebook.